These fairies could eat Tinkerbelle for breakfast and come back for a second helping! They are the kind depicted in old Celtic tales like Tam Lin, but here they are abroad in modern New York. The story starts immediately, throwing the reader into the mix without any explanation, which comes somewhat later. This certainly kick-starts the story, but left me a little bewildered at times. I felt that the book’s main strength was its depiction of the Faerie realm, a terrible and beautiful place beyond mortal ken, and whose largely psychopathic-seeming denizens are as unknowable as the stars. This makes them hard to identify with. Although at first sight Elaine and Matthew seemed stereotypes, as I read further into the book they came to life and became individuals; although, like the Fae, perhaps not terribly loveable. This is not a book to read fast as there is a lot in it, but that is hardly to its detriment.